Common Docker Compose Security Mistakes in Self-Hosted Homelabs

Self-hosting is great because it gives you control. You can run your own apps, keep your data closer to you, avoid some vendor lock-in, and learn how your stack actually works. But there is a tradeoff: once you self-host, you are also responsible for the boring parts. Exposed ports. Container defaults. Secrets. Backups. Updates. Reverse proxies. Databases. A lot of self-hosted setups start small: services : app : image : myapp:latest ports : - " 8080:8080" db : image : postgres:latest ports : -